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Managing preschool wheeze
Themes
1️⃣pathway to diagnosis
2️⃣medication management
3️⃣living with it
4️⃣improving healthcare
Qualitative study parents’ views and experiences🇬🇧
@prasadnagakumaradc.bmj.com/content/early/20…
Performance of clinical decision aids (CDA) for the care of young febrile infants: a multicentre prospective cohort study
AAP and BSAC CDAs were highly sensitive at excluding IBI, with cost saving to hospital services when compared to treat all approach
thelancet.com/journals/eclin…
Communication preferences and risk thresholds of clinicians and parents of febrile infants <90 days presenting to ED
Desire for shared decision-making evolves over time
Qualitative study
@KJWkathryn@timburgDadc.bmj.com/content/early/20…
Help improve children's emergency care! 🚨 Share your voice in our final online survey:
What are the Top 10 questions researchers should answer to improve emergency care for children and young people?
#PEM#HealthResearch#ChildrensHealth
Survey link: redcap.link/PEMPSP-Survey2
Here's an extract from the interview with @bigcatdoc on child deaths due to #asthma. Stop repeat prescribing short-acting beta agonists and prescribe a combined ICS/formoterol inhaler instead as part of a treatment regime. Regular use of salbutamol is unsafe. #ChildhoodAsthma
Our first podcast with @2_paeds is now live as we discuss Priority Setting in PEM research.
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Also you can watch us! on our YouTube page:
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Please share this recommendation from GINA: Adults and adolescents with #MILD#asthma should be treated with inhaled corticosteroid (ICS) containing therapy either regularly every day or with low-dose ICS–formoterol taken as needed for symptom relief. See ginasthma.org/reports/
Viewpoint
What is the role of oral corticosteroids in the treatment of acute preschool wheeze
Half of all <6y had episode
Many phenotypes, many heterogenous studies
RCTs so far failed to provide robust evidence to clarify clinical practice
@DrShaunKiwiadc.bmj.com/content/early/20…